The chapters in this volume are related to the conference, Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, that was held at the Glendon campus of York University, Toronto, in October of 1993. The original idea for the conference came from a debate on this subject between Jerome Bruner and Stuart Shanker, which appeared in the pages of the journal Language and Communication. As Johnson explains in more de…

The initial idea for this book came to me after a lecture that I gave in 1995 at the University of Newcastle in Australia. The lecture itself dealt with the psychological toxicity of certain patterns of contemporary enculturation, most notably those related to materialism and consumerism. In my usual fashion, I tried to ruffle a few feathers by challenging the audience to question some of the c…

this book aim all about psychoanalysis

The reader of this book will find within it ideas and models based on my 25 years of experience in clinical, educational, developmental, and medical psychology among Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and Americans, but mainly among Palestinian Arabs. I studied for my master?s degree in clinical psychology at Haifa University in Israel, during which time I received some practical training at Jewish psycholo…

The Healing Flow: Artistic Expression in Therapy matured into a book through the support and inspiration of all those who influenced and shaped my doctoral dissertation, on which this book is based. I would like to acknowledge OISE/University of Toronto for giving me permission to use parts of my doctoral thesis. I also would like to thank my thesis committee Dr. Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Dr. Ro…

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders. In psychiatry, as in other branches of medicine, classifi cation of disease is useful for the following: ? Informing clinical practice. By placing a given patient?s disorder into a recognized diagnostic category, the clinician is able to make an appropriate choice of treatment, and judge the proba…

The, idea behind Songs in Their Heads was percolating in my mind for a long while before I began to give it shape here on paper, spurred and stirred by my interactions with colleagues, students, and of course, children. In my ongoing observations of and discussions with education majors soon to be teachers, I had become uneasily aware of the times when we follow the recipes for teaching without…

This volume is based on edited papers presented at the Language and Space Workshop: Defining Functional and Spatial Features, held at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN in June 2001. As we discuss in the introductory chapter, the goal of the conference was to examine how the concepts of ?feature? and ?function? and ?functional feature? are defined across the domain of cognitive scienc…

Psychology appeals strongly to those who consider entering the field for several compelling reasons. One is its basic focus on human behavior? a topic relevant to each of us as individuals and in our many different relationships. At all ages, the psychological aspects of our behavior and that of others are key in how we perceive and experience our worlds. Another of psychology?s appeals has to …

The study was mostly funded by the Folkhälsoinstitutet (Institute of Public Health) for which I am extremely grateful. Thanks are due to a number of people. The staff at the open treatment clinic at the Dependency Unit of Norrköping, among them Anders Kroon, Anders Johansson and Ylva Johansson, also to the social workers at Sesam?s Youth Clinic and Roger Gustavsson and Rita Hallström. I also…